Barely a week after being released from a South Korean hospital after undergoing an emergency appendectomy, Olsen took part in the first runs of official two-man training on Thursday.

He was seated in the sled for the start of the first practice run, then took part in the push like usual for the second run. Olsen said he still isn't 100 percent, but expects to go through a full race-day simulation when training resumes Friday.

"It's good so far," Olsen said. "There's no hard feelings about the missing appendix."

There's been one unplanned benefit of going through the procedure: Olsen has lost a bit of weight. He weighed in Thursday at just under 230 pounds, which was his target for these Olympics.

"Before we got here I said I needed more activity, that I can't be this heavy," Olsen said. "Well, here we are."

PARIS (AP) — The squat glass bottles held the urine of sport's greatest stars and helped confound its cheating scoundrels. The "click, click" of their locking caps being firmly screwed on was a familiar sound to athletes around the world, on early mornings when sample collectors knocked on their doors and at doping control stations at the Olympic Games, World Cups and other major events.

But now, after two decades of behind-the-scenes service to the cause of clean sport, Berlinger bottles are joining the list of victims of Russian skullduggery.

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea's skiing federation has banned for life two male mogul skiers who competed at the Pyeongchang Olympics for harassing and assaulting two female teammates at a World Cup event last week in Japan.

GANGNEUNG, South Korea (AP) — The most talked-about athlete in the Paralympics barely plays, but who cares? The diminutive but hard-nosed reserve forward on South Korea's sled hockey team proudly admits he's just happy to be here.